I'm getting quite a late start on this day, mostly because of a really bad night last night. Couldn't sleep, try as I might. So when Karen got up to go to work, I told her to just take the truck, I would find things to do that didn't require going anywhere.

And there are still a lot of things to do. One thing that I have been worrying about, mounting and stabilizing the bar, was taken care of in my insomniac mania last night. I was suddenly able to visualize it... and when I got up this morning, it was still there... so it wasn't a dream, but a thought. Hard to tell sometimes... like the flying dreams.

Several months ago, I had the epitome of the flying dream... I was the flight instructor, showing other people how to twist their minds so that they, too, could fly. I was immensely popular and well-paid for that dream job...

Actually, flying is only 2/3s mind control and 1/3 physical... you do gotta flap them wings, even if they aren't there...

Several projects in mind for today, assuming that I don't absolutely poop out... taping the sheet rock needs to be number one, although there are quite a few other things I could do that would be more fun... like, really, what wouldn't be more fun?

They are actually pouring the curbs today! It is really happening... maybe we will really have a street again some day!

It didn't rain last night, although it was promised... I was out about 02:00, and there were clouds scurrying from the south, and a higher layer leisurely loping along... there was a hole in the higher layer, and the full moon was centered in the hole, with the lower clouds thinly veiling the moon in their rush northward. It was an amazing three-dimensional sight, it looked like an excellent computer animation...

Sometimes this world is just so fuckin' awesome, even in Kansas...

No, it was not a religious experience!

I have again fallen way behind with the daily pictures. I must be getting bored with it... not the pictures, but with the process. Mostly it doesn't seem worthwhile... everyone in the world knows what I look like already, and everyone knows the photoshopping techniques...

But I'll try to do better anyway. Discipline, Doug, discipline!

17:14...
OK, OK, I did do a bunch of taping; not all of it, but a bunch. And I finally vented the grill, so that we can annoy the neighbors with the lovely smells...

And damned if I ain't still pretty sickly... again with the cramps and diarrhea. Tired of it, I am. After a bout of that, I'm completely worn out... Which is why I stopped working. And here you thought that I was just lazy... aren't you ashamed of yourself?

Not that I'm not lazy, y'know... just not this time.

And, really, the taping is going a lot better than I thought it would. I'm using a new (to me, anyway) adhesive tape with holes, and it's just great... about 1/4 the work of using the old kind.

I just hate finish work of almost any kind... not because it means that you're finished when you're done, I like that part.. but it's the damned little details. Sanding, touching up, sanding again, knowing where every little defect is, knowing damned good and well that nobody else will ever notice them but I've still gotta obsess about them.

And it's never, never completely right.

Hell, just give me some stuff to build and some stuff to build it with and let someone who likes to do the finish work do it... then I'd be happy. Unfortunately, there are a lot more guys like me than there are guys like that...

Enough of this... I think that I'll take a shower and goof off the rest of the day... night.... whatever...